Date: Fri, 1 Aug 1997 14:56:21 +0930 (CST) From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: grog@lemis.com, brian@awfulhak.org, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: date(1) Message-ID: <199708010526.OAA08967@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <28422.870412711@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Jul 31, 97 10:18:31 pm"
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Jordan K. Hubbard writes: >> Now here's an enhancement that I *would* like to see: specify a >> timezone file to use. Something like: >> >> $ date -z /usr/share/zoneinfo/Asia/Tokyo >> >> to give you the current time in Tokyo. > > Blah. What's wrong with: > > jkh@time-> TZ=Asia/Tokyo date > Fri Aug 1 14:18:15 JST 1997 > > ? The documentation's inadequate. Sure, it points to environ(7), but since TZ is almost never used in BSD, there's a tendency to think it'll be like a System V TZ, which is completely different. How about adding: --- /usr/share/man/man1/date.1.orig Fri Aug 1 04:13:12 1997 +++ /usr/share/man/man1/date.1 Fri Aug 1 14:54:38 1997 @@ -171,6 +171,11 @@ .Bl -tag -width Ds .It Ev TZ The timezone to use when displaying dates. +The normal format is a pathname relative to +.Dq Pa /usr/share/zoneinfo . +For example, the command +.Dq env TZ=America/Los_Angeles date +displays the current time in California. See .Xr environ 7 for more information.
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